Elmer nathaniel hutchins



(No Model.)

E. N. HUTCHINS.

Doon HANGER. No. 306,079. Patented 0013.7, 1884.

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ELMER NATHANIEL HUTCHINS, OF LAVRENGE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGN'OR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO HIMSELF AND WILLIAM H. HUTCHINSON,

, OF SAME PLAGE.

DOOR-HANGER.-

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 306,079, dated October 7, 1884.

Application tiled May 5, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELMER NATHANIEL HUTcHINs, of Lawrence, in the county of Essex, of the Commonwealth of Massachu` 5 setts, 'have invented a new and useful Improvement in Door-Hangers; and Ido hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is an elevation, and Fig. 2 a transverse section, of a hanger embracing my invention, and applied toadoor and its sustain ing-rail. Fig. 3 is a representation in perspective of the hanger in part. Fig. 4 is a pen spective view of the cap by whichthe hanger is connected with a door. i

The nature of my invention is duly define in the claims hereinafter presented.

This door-hanger is for what are usually termed sliding doors,77 and is of a class well known, one of which is represented in the United States Pate-ut No. 281,546.

In Figs. l and 2, A denotes the upper part of a door, and B the track-rail for supporting the door, by means of a rider-bar, C, and two wheels, D D, such wheels being arranged to run on the track-rail and at such distance apart as to receive between them the rider-bar and admit it to rest atits lower edge upon a cylindrical spindle, c, extending into and connecting such wheels at. their hubs. The riderbar has at its ends. abutments b b, arranged, as shown in Figs. l and 3, to prevent it from running ofi' the spindle a, and such rider-bar is projected, in manneras represented, from two 'fiat standards, E E, extending upward from a base-plate, F. At its middle the said base-plate F has a vertical ear, c, to enter a groove, c, made longitudinally in the track- 40 rail B at its lower side, such ear and groove being to guide the door, in order to prevent it from swaying laterally while being opened or closed. There are also two ears, d, extending from the base-plate F through slots or 4 5 openings f in the cap G, fastened on the upper edge of the door -by screws h, going down through such cap and screwed into the door.

The said plate G at each of its ends has two greater ears, z' and k, extending from it, oneproj eeti ng horizontally and the other vertically, as shown in Fig. 4. The vertical ear enters a corresponding recess in the doorfathrough which door and the said ear a screw-bolt,v m, provided with a nut, a, passes, to aid, with the ear, in securing the cap G to the door. Screws o go upward through ears 7c of the cap G, and screw into the plate F and standards p, integral with such plate F and the standards E, and arranged as shown in Figs. 2 and 3,the nicked heads of the screws bearing against the under sides of the ears 7c lc.

By :means of the cap G and the screwsothe door may be raised or depressed relatively to.

the rider-bar, as occasion may require. In case of sagging of the door or its undue expansion vertically, it can be raised alittle by the said screws, in order to prevent it at its lower edge from binding on the door-sill.

vI do not claim a rider-bar,wl1eels, and their conneeting-spindle, and a track-railfor supporting a door; but Y I claiml. The combination of the base-plate F and cap G and their adjustingserews Vo with the rider-bar C, connected with suoli base-plate, substantially as described.

2.- The combination of the doorA,' provided with the slotted and eared plate G, the baseplate F, connected to such plate G by screws o, and having the ear c extending upward and the ears d projecting downward from it, the track-rail B, having the groove e to receive the ear c, the wheels D D, connected by the spindle c, and the rider-bar C, connected with the` plate F and extended between the said wheels, and resting on their spindle, all being to operate substantially as set forth.

Witnesses:

It. H. EDDY, E. B. PRATT'. 

